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Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Courtney Act Looks Back on Her Life as a Drag Icon

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy, Tv Reviews, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4831 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The drag entertainer Shane Jenek, better known to the world as Courtney Act, has lived a pretty remarkable life and she’s just getting started.

A front runner on season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Courtney’s season included many memorable people and moments that became a big part of queer culture.

But it wasn’t all fun, glitter and games. The show had issues with its lack of trans representation which put Courtney in the awkward situation of getting blocked by host RuPaul on Twitter for speaking out against the silent ban.

Ironically, today gender is more fluid than ever, and it feels like all the contestants on Drag Race are either trans or non binary.

Today Australian sensation Courtney Act joins us to give us the inside scoop on writing her new book Caught in the Act: A Memoir by Courtney Act

📘 FEATURED BOOK:
Caught in the Act by Shane Jenek, aka Courtney Act: https://amzn.to/3EFRQGt

Listen as we talk with Courtney about falling in love with a sexy construction worker in Chicago.

➤ How she won the hearts and minds of Britain on Celebrity Big Brother UK

➤ Finding out her dad was no stranger to drag himself!

Episode #3057

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0:00.0

The drag entertainer Shane Genick, better known to the world as Courtney Act, has lived a remarkable life, and she's just getting started.

0:18.1

A frontrunner on season six of R RuPaul's drag race, Courtney's season included

0:23.4

many memorable people and moments that became a huge part of queer culture.

0:28.7

But it wasn't all fun, glitter, and games. The show had issues with its lack of trans-representation,

0:34.6

which put Courtney in the awkward situation of getting blocked by host Rupal

0:38.7

on Twitter for speaking out against the silent band.

0:42.1

Ironically, today gender is more fluid than ever, and it feels like all the contestants

0:46.4

on drag race are either trans or non-binary.

0:49.6

Today, Australian Sensation Courtney Act joins us to give us the inside scoop of writing her new book, Cotton and the Act, a memoir by Courtney Act.

1:02.3

Listen as we talked with Courtney about falling in love with a sexy construction worker in Chicago.

1:07.0

How she won the hearts and minds of the world on Celebrity Big Brother UK.

1:11.8

And finding out her dad was no stranger to drag himself.

1:15.6

I'm Fausta Furnas.

1:16.9

I'm Mark Filian.

1:18.2

And this is Feast of Fun.

1:26.8

Hello.

1:28.5

Hello.

1:29.8

Who is this?

1:31.4

This is Courtney Axe.

1:32.8

I'm sorry, we don't want any.

1:36.2

You know what's so funny.

1:37.6

I was like, hang on, are we recording yet?

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